Re: ``Nothing like a monopoly to get investors to cheer you on''

["Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com>]

Brett wrote:

>It won't work that way here, because the pool of resources is limited.
>Anything Linux does to compete with Microsoft will be MORE effective
>against a less entrenched product.
>
>--Brett

That logic applies to all the minor commercial OSes too.  Should we all
campaign against BeOS because you think it is somehow "more effective"
against MacOS and Solaris than Windows?

I don't see why Linux is any different than any of the commercial OSes in
this particular respect.  There are many OSes with very small market share,
and they compete with each other as well as with Windows.  Whether or not
they are commercial is not relevant to this particular point.



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